Shane McCarthy

For the Australian rules footballer, see Shane McCarthy (footballer).

Shane McCarthy (born 24 July 1975) is an Australian writer best known for his comic book work.

Shane McCarthy
Born	(1975-07-24) 24 July 1975 (age 49)
Nationality	Australian
Area(s)	Writer
http://www.mccarthyshane.com

Career

A comic book fan from an early age, McCarthy's first widely published work was the three-part Batman backup story Low for DC Comics in 2004, beginning in Detective Comics #797. McCarthy later was responsible for a reinvention of the Riddler character in the five-part Riddle Me That beginning in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #185 (2005) and followed it up with Victims in Detective Comics #816 (2006), pitting Batman against Zsasz.^[1]

Other published works include Zombies: Feast for IDW Publishing and contributions to Event Horizon for Mam Tor Publishing, and Star Wars Tales for Dark Horse.

McCarthy completed a twelve-part Transformers series entitled All Hail Megatron for IDW Publishing.^[2] He is the creator of the character Drift.

His work appears in Marvel's Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1.

McCarthy formerly ran a swing dancing school in Perth, Western Australia.^[3]

Bibliography

Transformers for IDW Publishing

• All Hail Megatron (12 issues, 2008–2009)
• Spotlight: Blurr (one-shot, 2008)
• Spotlight: Drift (one-shot, 2009)
• Spotlight: Cliffjumper (one-shot, 2009)
• The Transformers: Drift (4 issues, 2010)
• Mars Attacks: The Transformers (one-shot, 2013)
• The Transformers: Drift - Empire of Stone (4 issues, 2014–2015)

Batman for DC Comics

• Low "Detective Comics" #797 - #799 (2004)^[4]
• Riddle Me That "Batman: Legends of The Dark Knight" #185 - #189 (2005)
• Victims "Detective Comics" #815 - #816 (2006)

Others:

• "Black Eight" in Star Wars Tales #21 (2004)
• Event Horizon #1 (2005)
• Event Horizon #2 (2005)
• Zombies! Feast (2006)^[5]
• Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1 (2009)